This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As we discover numerous habitable planets ...

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, Author of " Prehistoric Times.” New York : D. Appleton & Co. THERE can be no doubt that it was in the author’s mind to erect a great structure with the materials which he has here ...

We want to be seen as “civilized,” not looked down upon as “primitive.” But what if we have this the wrong way round? For 99 percent of our time as a human species, from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, ...

What do the terms ''savages'' or ''barbarians'' imply in the context of contemporary understandings of civilization, and how have Indian peoples come to be described by these expressions? Double-edged ...